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"For people just catching up to the Amanda Ungaro / Paolo Zampolli story" [View all]
Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social
capitolhunters
@capitolhunters.bsky.social
For people just catching up to the Amanda Ungaro / Paolo Zampolli story (she was an Epstein victim, then the mother of his child; he just had her deported by ICE), here's the bigger context: it was Zampolli who brought the Slovenian model Melania Knauss to the US and introduced her to Trump. 1/
Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
· 20d
This story is fucking insane:
*A Trump crony pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane
*When the relationship went sour as he pursued other women, and she married someone else, the crony set ICE on her.
*Now she is deported.
Ms. Ungaro was a 17-year-old model when she arrived in New York for the first time in 2002, flying on Mr. Epstein’s plane from Paris with her French agent. She never saw Mr. Epstein again, she said in an interview. But later that year, she met Mr. Zampolli, then 32, at a Manhattan nightclub.
Mr. Zampolli wooed her as a client, she said, persuaded her to move to the United States and began a romantic relationship with her that would last two decades. Mr. Zampolli said this didn’t happen until Ms. Ungaro was 19.
ALT
At the tail end of Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Zampolli was appointed to the board of the Kennedy Center. He moved to Washington for a short time with Ms. Ungaro and their son.
But by 2023, she was fed up. Mr. Zampolli had made headlines for his boisterous parties filled with younger women, and for passing around explicit text messages between himself and a woman he claimed was a sex worker.
Ms. Ungaro left Mr. Zampolli, moved to Florida and married a doctor from Brazil. Their son went to boarding school and then lived with her, and the former couple fought over custody of him.
Then, last June, Ms. Ungaro and her husband were arrested.
ALT
12:58 AM · Apr 10, 2026
@capitolhunters.bsky.social
For people just catching up to the Amanda Ungaro / Paolo Zampolli story (she was an Epstein victim, then the mother of his child; he just had her deported by ICE), here's the bigger context: it was Zampolli who brought the Slovenian model Melania Knauss to the US and introduced her to Trump. 1/
Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
· 20d
This story is fucking insane:
*A Trump crony pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane
*When the relationship went sour as he pursued other women, and she married someone else, the crony set ICE on her.
*Now she is deported.
Ms. Ungaro was a 17-year-old model when she arrived in New York for the first time in 2002, flying on Mr. Epstein’s plane from Paris with her French agent. She never saw Mr. Epstein again, she said in an interview. But later that year, she met Mr. Zampolli, then 32, at a Manhattan nightclub.
Mr. Zampolli wooed her as a client, she said, persuaded her to move to the United States and began a romantic relationship with her that would last two decades. Mr. Zampolli said this didn’t happen until Ms. Ungaro was 19.
ALT
At the tail end of Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Zampolli was appointed to the board of the Kennedy Center. He moved to Washington for a short time with Ms. Ungaro and their son.
But by 2023, she was fed up. Mr. Zampolli had made headlines for his boisterous parties filled with younger women, and for passing around explicit text messages between himself and a woman he claimed was a sex worker.
Ms. Ungaro left Mr. Zampolli, moved to Florida and married a doctor from Brazil. Their son went to boarding school and then lived with her, and the former couple fought over custody of him.
Then, last June, Ms. Ungaro and her husband were arrested.
ALT
12:58 AM · Apr 10, 2026
For people just catching up to the Amanda Ungaro / Paolo Zampolli story (she was an Epstein victim, then the mother of his child; he just had her deported by ICE), here's the bigger context: it was Zampolli who brought the Slovenian model Melania Knauss to the US and introduced her to Trump. 1/
— capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social) 2026-04-10T04:58:05.155Z
Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
This story is fucking insane:
*A Trump crony pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane
*When the relationship went sour as he pursued other women, and she married someone else, the crony set ICE on her.
*Now she is deported.
Ms. Ungaro was a 17-year-old model when she arrived in New York for the first time in 2002, flying on Mr. Epstein’s plane from Paris with her French agent. She never saw Mr. Epstein again, she said in an interview. But later that year, she met Mr. Zampolli, then 32, at a Manhattan nightclub.
Mr. Zampolli wooed her as a client, she said, persuaded her to move to the United States and began a romantic relationship with her that would last two decades. Mr. Zampolli said this didn’t happen until Ms. Ungaro was 19.
ALT
At the tail end of Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Zampolli was appointed to the board of the Kennedy Center. He moved to Washington for a short time with Ms. Ungaro and their son.
But by 2023, she was fed up. Mr. Zampolli had made headlines for his boisterous parties filled with younger women, and for passing around explicit text messages between himself and a woman he claimed was a sex worker.
Ms. Ungaro left Mr. Zampolli, moved to Florida and married a doctor from Brazil. Their son went to boarding school and then lived with her, and the former couple fought over custody of him.
Then, last June, Ms. Ungaro and her husband were arrested.
ALT
5:24 PM · Mar 20, 2026
@donmoyn.bsky.social
This story is fucking insane:
*A Trump crony pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane
*When the relationship went sour as he pursued other women, and she married someone else, the crony set ICE on her.
*Now she is deported.
Ms. Ungaro was a 17-year-old model when she arrived in New York for the first time in 2002, flying on Mr. Epstein’s plane from Paris with her French agent. She never saw Mr. Epstein again, she said in an interview. But later that year, she met Mr. Zampolli, then 32, at a Manhattan nightclub.
Mr. Zampolli wooed her as a client, she said, persuaded her to move to the United States and began a romantic relationship with her that would last two decades. Mr. Zampolli said this didn’t happen until Ms. Ungaro was 19.
ALT
At the tail end of Mr. Trump’s first term, Mr. Zampolli was appointed to the board of the Kennedy Center. He moved to Washington for a short time with Ms. Ungaro and their son.
But by 2023, she was fed up. Mr. Zampolli had made headlines for his boisterous parties filled with younger women, and for passing around explicit text messages between himself and a woman he claimed was a sex worker.
Ms. Ungaro left Mr. Zampolli, moved to Florida and married a doctor from Brazil. Their son went to boarding school and then lived with her, and the former couple fought over custody of him.
Then, last June, Ms. Ungaro and her husband were arrested.
ALT
5:24 PM · Mar 20, 2026
This story is fucking insane:
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T21:24:06.500Z
*A Trump crony pursued a teen model who flew to US on the Epstein plane
*When the relationship went sour as he pursued other women, and she married someone else, the crony set ICE on her.
*Now she is deported.
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